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Andrej Karpathy Coins New Term: "Bacterial Programming"

Andrej Karpathy Coins New Term: "Bacterial Programming"

Andrej Karpathy introduces "bacterial programming" - a new coding philosophy inspired by bacterial genomes. Learn the 3 laws of modular, self-contained code.

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Andrej Karpathy previously proposed "vibe coding," which became hugely popular. A few days ago, AK coined a new term, "Context Engineering," to replace "Prompt Engineering" (Andrej Karpathy: "The idea of 'ChatGPT wrappers' is completely wrong, prompt engineering is outdated"). Today, AK has coined yet another new term: "bacterial programming."

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In the world of software development, we often find ourselves in endless discussions about best practices: Should we build a large, comprehensive monolithic application, or embrace flexible microservices? Should we pursue zero dependencies, or make good use of mature third-party libraries?

Andrej Karpathy: Write code like bacteria

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